Provocative art?

I watched a tv show last week called "Safari" which is about culture stuff and art and so on.

That nights show was about feminist artists, and abortion and other issues that women can relate to.

They had this thing about this Swedish feminist artist, who had decided to make a sort of exhibition called something like "Birthday Party For Happy Aborted Children".

She had made all these cakes shaped as small foeteses and said that her intention with this little birthday party, was to provoke and remove the taboo around abortion, which so many women will have to go through. I have to say, before I continue that this "artist" once masturbated in front of her cat, and recorded it on tape and called it art so...

Anyways, she had this exhibition in Bergen, one of the cities in Norway that contains most free and freaky people, so I'm not exactly impressed.

I mean, what is she trying to get at? She's in Norway, whith total freedom of speach, where there are no demonstrators standing outside the locals waiting to stone her or disfigure her face because of the exhibition.

I would respect her so much more if she was actually at the risk of being arrested.

If she went down to, say, an Amish village, or maybe Iran and did this, I would probably see the point, but she isn't risking anything.

This week there will be a thing about this other artist who takes pictures of naked people in the middle of New York, and gets arressted almost every time.

Somehow I feel that that is a little more impressive, because he is actually provoking someone, whilst this swedish lady is doing nothing like that. All she is accomplishing is to annoy a couple of women, and maybe a couple of men, but there is no "revolution".

That's my thought for the day... tudluh!

Cowboy Kate & other stories...

I went to visit my grandparents house today,where I ate a lovely lunch and had a nice cup of tea.
My grandmother knows how to spoil you...
anyway, my grandfather(Ken) has a large selection of books, and every single time I come to their place he has this one line he always says: "You know, I have so many books, and you can come over any time you like and have a look at them."
I noticed he had a book on Ken Russel,so I went over to look at it since Russel was the director of "Tommy".
I asked my grandfather if he happened to have any books on David Bailey.
He started looking through his books and said he knew he had one somewhere, but wondered why I wanted a book about David Bailey, and I told him that I'm really into the sixties, and that I like his photographs.
"The sixties!? You're really into the sixties!? We'll I have LOTS of books on the sixties!" He said and went in to another room full of books.
He pulled out a huge book called: "Cowboy Kate and Other Stories" by Sam Haskins.

So that was an unnecessarily long story about how I borrowed this killer book from him so I could make some scans of it, 'cause the pictures are really cool, and sooo 60's!
I've still got it, but I can't be bothered to scan them, so I looked them up on the internet.


Anyway, here's a little excerpt from the book, you'll find the rest on http://www.haskins.com/CbyKate/Kate_p01.html

















I was hoping they would be a little bigger, but as I said, you can visit the website and get the whole story;)